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If you still want end-to-end encrypted messaging, you should use WhatsApp, according to Meta.

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Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th.

In a statement toThe Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature because “very few people” were using E2EE in their DMs.

Instagram has begun notifying impacted users about the change inside its app, and has alsoposted an update to its support page, suggesting that users download E2EE chats and images before it discontinues the feature,as spotted earlier byPiunikaWeb.

“Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp,” El-Kassaby Luce adds.

After bringing E2EE to WhatsApp and Messenger,Meta began rolling out the feature to Instagram in 2023, preventing third parties — including Meta — from viewing your messages.

But as regulators around the globepressure social platformsto ramp up child safety features, E2EE has become one of their targets.

In 2024, the Nevada Attorney General filed amotion to ban Meta from offering E2EE to minors, whileNew Mexico’s AG recently accused the companyof knowing E2EE “would make its platforms less safe by preventing it from detecting and reporting child sexual exploitation.”
TheUK also poses a threat to E2EE, too, as the country reportedly ordered Apple toallow backdoor access to iCloud datalast year.

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